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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Aphesis \Aph"e*sis\, n. [Gr. ? a letting go ? + ? to let go.] The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word -- the result of a phonetic process; as squire for esquire. --New Eng. Dict. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: aphesis n : the gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire'
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